For the past ten years, Field has been studying the Japanese incarnation of the international proletarian literature movement of the 1920s and 30s, focusing on the work of Kobayashi Takiji (1903-33). Takiji's best-…
The recently closed 12th National People's Congress completes a generational transition in China's leadership that began with the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party last November. Who are China's…
This talk looks at contemporary ethnic minority experiences in China’s urban labor market by focusing on describing the ‘ethnic penalty’ that emerges when analyzing the relationship between the educational and…
This talk is part of a longer article that challenges the common view that Zhuangzi 26 (“Waiwu”) is nothing more than a ragbag of odds and ends. Specifically for this talk, I focus on the illustrious final section of…
North Korea is most often seen as a member of the erstwhile “second world” of (former) Communist nations, and the survival of the North Korean regime as the peculiar holdover of a political system long defunct in its…
Koizora is a 2007 film based on a cell phone novel of the same name. Mika Tahara loses her cellular phone, but later finds it in the school library with the help of an unknown caller. Throughout the summer, Mika and…
Facilitating China’s economic rise is one of the central issues for the world economy. Based on his recent book Eclipse, the author will argue that strategic distrust between the world’s major economies can be…
In the conventional understanding of Chinese history, the Song dynasty (960-1279) appears as a period during which civil officials, fortified by a renewal of Confucian values and recruited through an expanded civil…
